Ware drier and factory.



A. B. KLAY WTA\RE DRIER AND FACTORY. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1916.

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Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

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WARE DRIER AND FACTORY.

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Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

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Q Q In ven'tm attorney ABRAHAM B, KLAY, OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA.

WARE DRIER, AND FACTORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

Application filed June 10, 1916. Serial No. 103,004.

T 0 all whom it may concern Beit known that I. idlliAlL-llf B. KLAY, acitizen of the United States, residing at Modesto, in the county ofFltanislaus and. State of California have invented new and usefulImprovements in lVare Drier-s and Factories, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a ware drier and factory and one object of thesame is to embody in a unitary building structure all the accessoriesnecessary in the manufacture of various kinds of ware from plasticmaterial and embodying a compartment for storing plastic material orclay in a readily accessible manner and providing for the protection ofthe same during cold weather; power generating means, such as a boilerand engine; ware pressing and shaping mechanism space or inclosurc inoperative adjacency to the boiler and engine or power generating means;a kiln below ground surface with drying compartments superposedthereover into which the radiated heat from the various parts of thekiln permitted to pass by uninterrupted circulation through the floors,and elevating means between the space or inclosure containing the warepressing and shaping mechanism and the several drying compartments andbetween the kiln and these compartments and whereby all the steps andoperations required in the formation of plastic ware may be convenientlyefiected in one building structure and without requiring the operativesto go back and forth from one building to another. A further object ofthe invention to economize in a building structure by utilizing thestacks of a kiln as a supporting means for the floors of a drier andalso for the roof covering of such drier and to expose these stacks insuch manner in the several drying compartments as to use the radiatedheat therefrom for drying the ware in the compartments. A further objectof the invention is to generally improve and economically construct afully equipped factory and drier and kiln in one structure toexpecitiously manufacture plastic ware.

One structural embodiment of the im proved drier and factory isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, and therein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a building structure including a drierembodying the features of the invention.

Fig. '2 is an end elevation of the same,

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the improved factory and drier lookingtoward the side opposite that shown by Fig. 1.

Fig. 4; is a longitudinal vertical section through the drier portion ofthe factory.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section and ground plan of the kiln and remainingparts of the factory.

Fig. 6 is a transversevertical section taken through the drier and kilnand also through the boiler and engine room and compartments thereaboveincluding the plastic material or clay compartment and also through theplastic arc pressing and shaping room or space.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of a portion of one of theventilators which also serves as a heat conducting means for the plasticmaterial or clay compartment.

The numeral 5 designates what may be termed the manufacturing section ofthe factory and 6 the drier which is a part of the factory structure.The main factory section, as more clearly shown by Figs. 5 and 6,comprises a manufacturing compartment 7 wherein suitable mechanism maybe placed for pressing and shaping plastic ware, this compartment asshown extending at a right angle to the main building structure; andadjacent tl'iereto is the boiler and engine compartment 8 which isillustrated as having a boiler 9 therein with a stack 10 extendingupwardly through the superstructure above and at a suitable distanceabove the roof 11 of the building or factory. The boiler and engine room8 extends parallel to and is located at a distance from the mainbuilding structure, and projecting outwardly about midway from thisboiler and engine room is a lower compartment 12 which may be used forany purpose desired. The manufacturing compartment 7. wherein themechanism for pressing and shaping the plastic material is adapted to belocated, has a machine shop and tool room 13 at one end thereof and allof these compartments and rooms have exterior and interior communicatingdoors and openings as shown. Above the boiler and engine room orcompartment 8 and the room or compartment 12 is a plastic material orclay storage compartment or room 14 which is provided with an upperinlet opening 15 normally closed by sliding doors 16, as shown by Fig.1, the said doors having lower openings 17 over a track 18 extendingfrom the exterior of the factory any suitable distance and entering thelatter through the said doors for plastic material or clay carriers 19of the usual dumping type and provided with end gates 20 adapted to betripped and deposit their contents into the room or compartment 14. Thetrack 18 extends at an upward angle of inclination adjacent to the roofwithin the factory, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the carriers19 are operated by a suitable cable means 21 and whereby the plasticmaterial or clay may be conveyed from a pug mill or other point ofpreparation and conveyed to and deposited in the compartment 14 where itmay be stored ready for use. This track structure 18 and cable operatedcarriers 19 are well known in the art of plastic ware making and neednot be further described. Extending upwardly through the room orcompartment 1% are pipes 22, 23 and 24 which are fully open at theirupper and lower ends and communicate at their lower ends with the boilerroom or compartment 8 and the compartment 12, the latter beingpreferably used as an engine room, though the engine may be disposed inthe boiler room. The pipes 22, 23 and 24: are provided with inwardlyopening dampers 25 and outwardly opening dampers 26, the dampers in eachpipe being the same, and in cold weather the damrers 25 will be adjustedor operated to close the pipes and the dampers 26 actuated to open thepipes relativelv to the compartment or room 14: and whereby the heatfrom the rooms or compartments below may be utilized for preventing theplastic material or clay from freezing. In warm weather these pipes 22,23 and 24- may beused for ventilators to cool the compartments withwhich their lower ends Communicate, and when serving as ventilators thevalves 25 will be clos d down to fullv clear the said pipes. and thevalves 26 will be closed so as to prevent heat from passing into thestorage compartment or room 14-. As shown by Fig. 7 the valves 25 and 26cooperate with openings 27 and 28 in the one side of each pipe 22, 23and 24, or any other form of valve mav be used, though that illustratedis convenient and sim le in its application and operation. It will beunders ood that the factory part of the improved building, or where theclay is stored and the working mechanism located, is not confined in thespecific divisions or compartments above explained and may be modifiedat will. For all practical purposes, however, the arrangement of thecompartments or rooms as particularlv described is very convenient andespecially the disposition of the compartment 7 where the plastic wareis pressed and shaped. as the said ware when shaped mav he readilyremoved from the said compartment and conveyed by elevators t0 differentportions of the drier 6, these elevators being shown by Fig. 5 andindicated by the reference character 29. The elevators 29 are movable inreverse directions or While'one is ascending the other will bedescending, and it is preferred that the ware that has been properlyshaped be placed upon suitable trucks or other movable transportingdevices and elevated to the drier compartments and the remainingelevator utilized in lowering the empty trucks or transporting means forthe ware to the compartment or room 7 for reloading.

The drier 6 is erected directly over a kiln 30 which may be of any formbut is preferably constructed as disclosed by my copending applicationfiled May 31, 1916, Serial No. 100,932. lVha tever may be the form ofkiln used, the stacks 31 thereof are extended fully from the baseupwardly through and above the roof 11 which is continued over thedrier. The stacks 31 form the main upright supports for the drier andhave the ends of girders or floor and roof beams 32 let partway into thestacks or are terminally held by the said stacks, and over these girdersfloor beams 33 are disposed and secured and spaced regularly, as at 31,see Fig. l, to provide a plurality of compartments 35, 36, 37 and 38which constitute drying rooms having floors with openings therein topermit the heat radiated from the kiln 30 below to pass upwardlytherethrough. The several compartments of the drier are also heated bythe stacks 31,

there being; more or less heat radiated from these stacks, but the mainfunction of the extended stacks is to serve as the essential uprightsupporting means for the drier structure. The elevators 29 have regularlanding points relatively to the several compartments 35, 36. 37 and 38and especially those compartments above the ground floor as in allelevator constructions. and the green ware, as here nbefore explained,is conveyed by one of the elevators 29 to the drier compartmentspreferably by means of trucks and the empty trucks are taken down on theremaining elevator 29. After the ware is properly dried it is removedfrom the several compartments of the drier by elevators 39 and 40disposed in a suitable shaft 41 in the longitudinal central portion ofthe drier, said elevators alternately descending; to and ascending fromcharging passages 42 disposed transversely with relation to the kiln 30,as shown by Fig. 5, and by this means the ware which is in propercondition to be burnt may be quickly placed in the kiln along the lengthof the latter from various portions of the compartments of-the drier.

It will be understood that the plastic ma terial or clay will be removedfrom the compartment 14: by. any suitable means and 1 gaff brought tothe mechanism for pressing and shaping the ware and which is located inthe compartment or room 7 and from the latter room, through the mediumof the elevators 29, the green ware may be expeditiously placed in thedrying compartments of the drier and after the ware has been properlydried it may then be taken directly to the kiln below without requiringthe operatives to leave the factory to perform any part of these severaloperations. The factory as a whole including the drier will be providedwith suitable windows or light admitting means 43 and also with suitabledoors in the sides and ends thereof, as at 44, for ingress and egresspurposes. Along opposite sides of the factory tracks 45 will be laid inconvenient positions relatively to portions of the doors a l to permitthe ware when completed to be readily loaded on suitable cars, and thesetracks may also be used for bringing fuel by means of cars up toopposite sides of the building or factory and storing it at suitablepoints for use in the kiln.

The drier 6 has a large capacity and occupies the greater portion of thefactory, and as shown by Fig. 5 the kiln 30 extends full length underthe drier. By utilizing the heat from the kiln 80 and stacks 31 to heatthe several compartments of the drier a ma terial saving results in themanufacture of the ware in view of the fact that it is unnecessary toprovide separate heating means for the drier. It is proposed toconstruct the several parts of the factory and drier of any buildingmaterial adapted for the purpose and also to increase and decrease thedimensions and general proportions of the compartments of the drier andfactory as a Whole in accordance with the size of the plant.

What is claimed is:

1. In a factory of the class specified, a plurality of superposed dryingcompartments, a kiln disposed at the base of the compartments forheating the latter, and closed stacks extending from the kiln fullyupwardly through the drying compartments and providing heat radiatingmeans common to all of the compartment and also means for structurallysupporting the components of the compartments.

2. In a factory of the class specified. a plurality of superposed dryingcompartments, a kiln disposed at the base of the compartments, thecompartments having floors with openings therein and heated from thekiln through the said floors, and stacks extending upwardly from thedifferent portions of the kiln through the several compartments andforming heat radiating means relatively to the latter, the floors of thedrying compartments having portions engaging the said stacks and thelatter thereby serving as a part of the supports for the superstructureabove the kiln.

3. In a factory of the class specified, a plurality of superposed dryingcompartments comprising girders having spaced floor beams thereon toprovide the said c mpartments with open floors, a kiln disposed at thebase of the compartments for heating the latter through the floors andfor burning the ware, and closed stacks extending upwardly fromdifferent portions of the kiln and through and exposed as heat radiatingmeans in the drying compartments and having the said girders terminallysupported therein, the stacks forming the uprights for thesuperstructure over the kiln embodying the compartments.

4-. In a factory and drier of the class specified, a base kiln having acontinuous burning chamber centrally divided by a partition means andaround the ends of which the chamber continues, the partition meansbeing transversely divided at intervals by closed walls to form spaceswhich have opposite communications with the chamber, plastic materialpressing and shaping compartments and superposed drying compartments forplastic ware over the kiln and whereby the heat from the latter will. beutilized in the several compartments for drying the ware. and elevatorsmounted to move downwardly into the said spaces of the burning chamberand also upwardly and downwardly through the several drying compartmentfloors for conveying the dried ware from the drying compartments down.-wardly into the burning chamber of the kiln and from the latter chamberupwardly for delivery in burnt condition from the factory.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM B. KLAY. lVitnesses CHAS. S. HYER, S. E. WVHITE.

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